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California sues Trump administration in bid to keep state’s tougher emissions standards (www.sfchronicle.com)
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[–] 1 point 4 months ago* (3 children)

I don't have familiarity with the standard, but one bright Californian engineer who I knew who was into auto computer hacking

much more into automobile technology than I am

had a pretty strong position that California's auto emissions requirements were unreasonably stringent.

That same guy also had a history of making correct technical claims that I didn't I didn't initially believe, like that USB device-to-host transfers had to be triggered via host-side polling, and that there's no device-driven interrupt mechanism (he was right), so he's got a pretty good track record in my book.

That's a separate issue from whether-or-not there's a legal basis for the Trump administration to revoke California's waiver, or of whether market fragmentation on emissions standards is an economic concern, which are also factors here.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    California has a long history of really stringent emissions rules because the state has densely populated areas which get thermal inversions which trap the pollution where the people are. They need to be reduculously stringent because the alternative is that people die from the pollution.

    The latest round have a bunch of steadily increasing fuel economy rules designed to force automakers to switch away from fossil fuels as part of a much larger effort to stabilize the rising temperatures caused by the rising CO2 concentration which their combustion causes

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    You obviously didn’t live in the LA area during the 80s and 90s. I vividly remember having school days where we had “smog alerts” and no one was allowed to run during recess due to air quality. You could also be standing in a place like Pasadena and not be able to see the San Gabriel Mountains (which are only a few miles away). That’s mostly a thing of the past now. The emmissions standards had and continue to have a huge impact on the air quality there and I’m baffled as to why anyone would want to walk that back (other than car manufacturers or factory/energy sector people because they can do things a bit cheaper).

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